Wrong Quotes
11807 quotes by 6005 authors
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It's better to solve the right problem approximately than to solve the wrong problem exactly.
— John Tukey
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Successful problem solving requires finding the right solution to the right problem. We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we…
— Russell L. Ackoff
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Possibly the biggest issue, however, is that performance appraisals focus managers attention on precisely the wrong thing: individual people. As W. Edwards Deming, the father…
— Jeffrey Pfeffer
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It's good to play something that's black and white, and a guy that sees right and wrong. I've never played a character like that.
— David Lyons
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He just rubs people up the wrong way in a short space of time and, after he'd gone, one of the South African coaches there…
— Unknown Author
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The rower need to know technique and has to be in shape. He won't wrong by using strategy. Yet what it takes to win races…
— Barry S. Strauss
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My dear boy, you are under a wrong impression. It is not a race, it is merely a means of getting crews to do long…
— Steve Fairbairn
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Some day, someone will do something wrong and there will be a scandal to report in the paper. When that happens, we will address it…
— John Hickenlooper
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This external worship of images has, however, been described in all our Shastras as the lowest of all the low forms of worship. But that…
— Swami Vivekananda
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We may worship a picture as God, but not God as the picture. God in the picture is right, but the picture as God is…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.
— Whittaker Chambers
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I haven't heard any music on the BBC World Service in a long time. Maybe I'm listening at the wrong times. But not one single…
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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There is no straight path from your seat today to where you are going. Don't try to draw that line. You will not just get…
— Sheryl Sandberg
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Keep records of your fitness progress throughout your training. Chart all of the food you eat, the exercises you complete, and even the amount of…
— Robert Cheeke
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People ask me why I work so hard and why I have this compassion to reach the top and be great. I respond by telling…
— Robert Cheeke
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Discipline is a difficult word for most of us. It conjures up images of somebody standing over you with a stick, telling you that you're…
— Henepola Gunaratana
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As tough as it sometimes looks on the front end, it's easier to do right than undo wrong.
— Price Pritchett
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If I have a stupid day, everything looks wrong to me.
— Anna Freud
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Indeed I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong
— William J. Clinton
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[They let] friendship with the leaders in China obscure our devotion to freedom and democracy when those kids set up in Tiananmen Square, and I…
— William J. Clinton
Who Wrote These Wrong Quotes
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